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The IntelliJ Platform is a multithreading environment that executes many asynchronous and non-blocking tasks to avoid UI freezes.
These tasks are usually executed in background threads, which is a standard approach in the JVM world.
Since version 1.1, [Kotlin](using_kotlin.md) has introduced coroutines as a lightweight and easy to implement abstraction over threads.
Since version 1.1, [Kotlin](using_kotlin.md) has introduced coroutines as a lightweight and cleaner abstraction over threads, allowing them to be utilized more efficiently.
The IntelliJ Platform started adapting coroutines in its APIs and internal code, and since 2024.1 it is recommended to use the coroutines approach over threads.
> Plugins _must_ use the bundled Kotlin Coroutines library, see [](using_kotlin.md#coroutinesLibraries).
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### Coroutines Advantages
The reason for coroutines being lightweight is the fact that they aren't bound to OS native threads, as opposed to the JVM threads.
It enables much less memory consumption and cheaper context switching, which makes the platform and plugins more performant.
It enables much less memory consumption and more efficient context switching, which makes the platform and plugins more performant.
For example, it is straightforward to run 100.000 coroutines on a standard computer, which is not possible with threads as it would cause `OutOfMemoryError`.
Besides performance, there are more advantages of using coroutines:
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What was usually implemented with hard to understand, implement, and maintain callbacks, with coroutines looks like regular sequential/imperative code.
- Coroutines allow for implementing structured concurrency (coroutines can spawn child coroutines), which allows for easily managing the lifecycle of concurrent tasks and error handling.
For example, cancelling a parent coroutine automatically cancels all child coroutines.
- It is trivial to switch execution of the code parts between UI and background threads.
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- It is trivial to switch execution of the code parts between [UI and background threads](threading_model.md).
### Java Interoperability
Coroutines provide very limited Java interoperability, and coroutine-based APIs can’t be used to the full extent from Java code.
Kotlin Coroutines are new to the IntelliJ Platform and aren't yet widely adopted in public APIs.
Kotlin Coroutines are relatively new to the IntelliJ Platform and aren't yet widely adopted in public APIs.
In the future, the number of coroutine-based APIs will grow, and using only Java may not be enough to implement a fully functional plugin.
It will be required to use [Kotlin](using_kotlin.md), at least partially, for example, to implement coroutine-based [extension points](plugin_extension_points.md).